Pot Prescribed For ADHD – Medical marijuana is being prescribed to children to treat ADHD or attention deficit disorder in states where pot is legal.
As a result, schools with a zero tolerance drug policy are running smack dab into the smoldering roach of marijuana legally prescribed to their students.
“This is all just kind of starting to happen,” high school principal Jeff Schlecht told the Ashland Daily Tidings in Oregon. “It does place us in an awkward position.”
Oregon is one of 14 states where medical marijuana is now legal.
Prescribing pot to kids with ADHD is a controversial trend among medical practitioners.
“It’s safer than aspirin,” Dr. Jean Talleyrand told the New York Times. Dr. Talleyrand is a marijuana advocate who founded a network of 20 clinics in Oakland, Calif. which dispense medical marijuana – including to teenagers diagnosed with ADHD.
But Stephen Hinshaw, the chairman of the psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley, calls it “one of the worst ideas of all time.”
He cites studies showing that the active ingredient in cannabis disrupts attention, memory and concentration – already issues for people diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder.
Not everyone is using their pot prescription for treatment, however.
“Some of them have it for medical reasons, but others are just trying to get free weed and sell it, turn it around,” said a 17-year-old high school student in Ashland, Ore.
A California Supreme Court last week rejected limits on medical marijuana, ruling that anyone with a prescription can grow or buy as much as they want for personal use.
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